Tags archives: funny

San Francisco entrepreneur and investor Ryan Allis released a 1,284-slide Powerpoint presentation earlier this week, in celebration of his 30th birthday on Thursday, August 14 (happy belated, buddy!) It's been mocked by lots of media folk -- but I re[...]

Courtesy of TechCrunch, we have Sergey Brin's resume circa 1998, right around the time he was working on Ph.D research like 'Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web.'
Brin was also in the nascent stages of developing Google with [...]

According to DealBook, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- the Harvard ubermenschen with a knack for news-making, oar-breaking and lady-taking -- have launched a Bitcoin price index dubbed WinkdexSM ,with the goal of bringing price transparency to the wi[...]

According to Slate, Taco Bell will be rolling out a mobile-ordering app later this year, after more than two-and-a-half years in development. Customers will be able to pay from inside the app with credit cards and gift cards, and pick their food up f[...]

A recent Business Insider piece highlights the precipitous traffic decline of viral content sites like Upworthy, ViralNova and Elite Daily, with the morale being 'investing in journalism pays off.'
We're not so sure about that one.
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According to TechCrunch, blogging platform Medium has closed a $25 million funding round led by Greylock, with participation from Google Ventures and several individual investors.
Medium has rapidly filtered into public awareness the past twelve m[...]

According to a recent Quora thread (h/t Valleywag), Clinkle -- the mobile payments startup founded by 22-year-old Stanford grad Lucas Duplan -- is hemorrhaging employees, cash and overall dignity.
On December 12, one anonymous commenter wrote that D[...]

The New York Times ran a 'Room for Debate' column yesterday, featuring four economics professionals responding to the simple question, "Are we in a stock market bubble that could soon burst?"
Thankfully, none of the respondents had any direct conn[...]

Business Insider has released deposition videos of Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel -- co-founders of Snapchat -- admitting that their fraternity brother Reggie Brown was the original creator of the 'disappearing photos' concept.
Brown is currently s[...]

In the classic sci-fi film 'Soylent Green,' the namesake food product is actually made of people, a necessary solution to overpopulation and environmental degradation; the film ends with a classic Charlton Heston freak-out.
Now Soylent, a meal-rep[...]

Refinery29, the fast-growing fashion and beauty website, has raised a $20 million Series C round from Stripes Group, and is "doubling down" on content, according to PandoDaily.
Ah, content...there was a time, maybe a year ago, when creating slides[...]